New initiatives for industrial and international partnerships are enabling À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ engineers to develop strategic research collaborations in areas such as wireless communications, the mobile internet, additive manufacturing, advanced robotics, biomedical engineering and sustainable energy.Ìý
The Engineering Research Office (ERO) proactively builds relationships with funding agencies, potential sponsors and other stakeholders, pairing the university’s leading engineering researchers with government and industry, to advance new technologies to improve the human condition.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering maintains research partnerships with close to 800 Canadian companies and 300 companies internationally, targeting strategic research partnerships with leading global universities.
Several Senate-approved research centres, including the Centre for Advanced Trenchless Technology, the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Institute for Sustainable Energy, the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for Automotive Research and the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Institute for Nanotechnology form part of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering’s commitment to research excellence.
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Fundamentally changing the way things are made.
Controls and precision tooling, lightweight materials, structural crashworthiness,Ìýadvanced materials.Ìý
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Digital design and fabrication technologies, environmental issues and new material economies, globalization,Ìýurbanization.
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Bio-compatibility and in-vitro modelling, human movement, ergonomics, wearable technology.
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Advancing IoT research to connect and exchange data.
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Nano-biosystems, nano-electronics, nano-instrumentation, nano-materials.
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Robotics and machine intelligence, machine learning.Ìý
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Human machine interaction, autonomous robotics, rahabilitation and assistive robotics, micro and nano robitics, and sensing and control.
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Transporation networks, smart buildings, smart communities, and sensors and devices.
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Grad student's academic restart leads to global award
A À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering graduate student who restarted her academic journey in Canada after the war in Ukraine has been recognized internationally for her research in AI-powered sports analytics.
Kseniia Buzko arrived at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ through a summer program for displaced Ukrainian students, later completing her undergraduate degree with top marks and joining the Department of Systems Design Engineering's Vision and Image Processing Research Group as a master’s student.
Former dean and alumnus named to Order of Canada
Two men with deep ties to À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering – a former dean who has directly influenced more than a million students and an alumnus who was inspired to help children by the birth of his own son – have been named officers of the Order of Canada.
Prof reflects on Canada's potential for audacious innovation
Dr. Larry Smith, a professor from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering’s Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, is known by students and alumni alike for his legendary classes on economics, innovation and entrepreneurship. Ìý
In an exchange with BetaKit, a Canadian tech publication, SmithÌýshared his views on thoughtful ambition, Canada’s potential for greatness and student fashion.